Individual-based model talk at UEA

 

Went over to UEA's D'Arcy hompson room for computation biology talk. It was given by Professor Marta Ginovart who has been a visting scientist at IFR in the past. The talk was about an Individual (Agent)-based model tool INDISIM used to simulate bacterial and yeast populations (the latter with clear industrial applications) and mineralisation in soils due to microbial communities. The talk covered the subject of IBMs very well. Questions afterwards mainly centred upon relative adantages of this method as opposed to continous models e.g. Systems of ordinary differential equations and about the parametrisation of energy requirements for maintainance vs. biomass of the simulated organisms.